Donald Trump’s comments have renewed concern from Latino leaders, civil rights groups and extremism experts, particularly as he dominates the GOP primary field.
Donald Trump has denigrated undocumented immigrants in recent weeks by accusing them of “poisoning the blood of our country,” associating them with drug and alcohol use and portraying them as dangerous threats to Americans, prompting widespread criticism and denunciations of racism and xenophobia from immigrant and civil rights groups.During a recent rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the former president said: “These people are very aggressive: They drink, they have drugs, a lot of things happening.
Jon Lewis, a research fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, said that “poisoning” language has directly appealed to people in the past who have gone on to commit violence against minorities, citing the “We’re going to have the largest deportation operation in history,” he said to loud applause during a Saturday campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa.
The Republicans’ ideas are resonating on the right, as migrant crossings of the U.S.-Mexico border have soared under the Biden administration. Administration officialsthis month that they would fast-track the construction of new barriers along the border as well as reinstate direct deportation flights to Venezuela.
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